| Description | Artist's proof engraving on paper. Frontispiece for ‘THE MODERN ARABIAN NIGHTS BY ARTHUR à BECKET & LINLEY SAMBOURNE’, published by ‘BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO, WHITEFRIARS.’ The writing is all elaborate, ‘THE’ being spelt with birds, 'MODERN' in lights, ‘ARABIAN’ with the pipe emerging from a pot of sheesha and ‘NIGHTS’ looking similar to Arabic characters. In the centre sits a caricature of a cross-legged portly English gentleman smoking the sheesha pipe. He wears a turban and carries a curved umbrella (parodying an Eastern sword) against a backdrop of stars. |